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Obama becomes the new president of the United States

Today Barack Obama will become the new President of the United States of America.

The soon to be new President will have a difficult job ahead of him with the current economy in the United States, however the people of America seem to be excited about the changes Obama could bring, not only to the USA but to the world.

Here something that Obama once said:

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obama

That is something we share at Languagelab with students from 50 different countries and staff from all over the world all studying and working together.  

So why don’t you watch history being made today and see Obama make his first speech as President of the USA.

Answers to the Twitter questions:

He wants to find out:

1. How Obama will thank Bush.

2. How he will talk to the rest of the world.

3. How much he will talk about communal sacrifice

If you want to watch the video click here

Sharing Christmas traditions in English City

As we talked about before there are lots of different traditions connected to Christmas and the holiday season.  Some of these traditions are very old and some of them are newer, some countries have taken, adapted and used other traditions to create a unique Christmas culture.

The topics that will be talked about in this Christmas session are:

The origins of Christmas,
Santa Claus,
Christmas Trees,
Christmas Stockings,
Mistletoe,
The Holly and the Ivy,
Poinsettias,
Candy Cane,
Christmas Cards,
Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer,
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

How many of these do you know about ? Why not join Lane Jarman and talk about your Christmas experience.  Sharing traditions is on December 25th at 6:00am PDT and 2pm UK at the Manor and is followed by Christmas Carols with Lane from 7am-8am (3pm UK).

So if you would like to sing again or missed the Carols by Candlelight, come along to the Manor and sing :-)